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Dalhausser’s Road to Rio redirected
- Updated: May 23, 2016
Moscow, Russia, May 22, 2016 – At this time last year at the 2015 FIVB World Tour stop in the Russian capital, the Road to Rio looked a lot different for two-time American Olympian Phil Dalhausser.
A winner of the Moscow Grand Slam in July 2008 with his gold medal winning partner at the Beijing Olympic Games Todd Rogers, Dalhausser and then-teammate Sean Rosenthal opened play here 51 weeks ago on the featured court at the Vodny Stadium Beach Sports Centre by losing 2-0 (21-19, 21-14) in 34 minutes to Russian teenagers Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin.
Despite splitting a pair of pool play matches the next day (May 28) against teams from Austria and Germany, the top-seeded Dalhausser and Rosenthal were sent packing after being eliminated from the 2015 Moscow Grand Slam to place 25th for the American duo’s worst finish together on the international circuit.
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OBLIQUE STRAIN
During their final Moscow match that resulted in a 2-1 (20- 22, 21-18, 15-7) setback in 53 minutes to Alexander Walkenhorst and Stefan Windscheif of Germany, Dalhausser strained his left oblique muscle that forced him to miss the 2015 FIVB World Championships in The Netherlands along with three SWATCH Major stops in Croatia, Norway and Switzerland, and the United States Grand Slam in St. Petersburg.
Was the 2015 Moscow Grand Slam was the beginning of the end for Dalhausser/Rosenthal partnership that produced six gold medal and eight podium placements in 20 FIVB World Tour events together? The pair did play in one more FIVB stop together two months later at the Yokohama Grand Slam where they placed ninth at the end of July.
“I think if he doesn’t have that oblique injury, we’re out playing and we’re back to where we’ve been the last two years, as the No. 1 team in the world,” Rosenthal said, according to Redbull.com. “When we weren’t injured, we were the best team in the world.”
Added Dalhausser, according to Redbull.com, “when we first got together, everyone was saying we …
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